Zephyr Chants (with Carmen Terol) - in development
interactive sound installation, 2025-2026Zephyr Chants is an immersive, interactive sound installation which explores how humans might reimagine their relationship with nature in a future shaped by climate instability.
Set within a speculative future where nature has reclaimed the urban landscape, the work imagines how a society could adapt and collaborate with nature instead of controlling or isolating from it. Rather than presenting catastrophe as spectacle or invoking fear, the work aims to propose a space for reflection and wonder, a sensorial experience that unfolds over time and invites the audience to slow down, to listen, and to share presence.
The installation transforms repurposed construction pipes into wind sculptures that respond to both the environment and the audience. Zephyr Chants is conceived as a breathing ecosystem in which human, machine, and nature co-compose, each encounter producing a unique sonic landscape. It explores how the boundaries between instrument, stage, performer and audience can be blurred and what happens when these roles are continuously renegotiated.
The installation is part of OPPER, an ongoing speculative worldbuilding project initiated by Oana Clitan in 2020. Zephyr Chants is a close collaboration between Oana Clitan and Carmen Terol (flutist, musician).
We currently have a working prototype of the installation, and are developing it further with updated scenography, worldbuilding elements and a performance element.
OPPER worldbuilding
Originating from research into Rotterdam’s post-war reconstruction politics, OPPER has evolved into a long-term worldbuilding project exploring urban renewal and the development of new surveillance technologies in the aftermath of ecological collapse.
The installation is set outside of OPPER Tower, a fortified high-rise built after a major climate disaster. While the tower promises safety and stability, its economy is based on selling the data inhabitants. Outside its walls, other forms of living emerge: communities that choose to adapt and work with natural forces rather than hide from them.
Zephyr Chants imagines one such community, where people use trash from OPPER Tower to create sound sculptures for their public space, that can also warn of incoming storms.
Other projects part of OPPER worldbuilding
Birth of OPPER part I
OPPER leisure
Visions of 010 melting
Pixels of Lost Time and Space
Electrons on the threshold
Project details Developed by Oana Clitan and Carmen Terol Grau
The project is supported by Stimuleringsfonds and Cultuurfonds.Photos and video documentation by Mihai Gui